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Friday, January 21, 2011

Increasing RAM using a USB drive

A disk cache component called ReadyBoost has been introduced by Microsoft in its two latest offerings Windows Vista and also Windows 7.

Although it is best to physical add new RAM to your system, it is possible to improve the performance by using an external hard drive by about 5-10% using flash memory, a USB flash drive, SD card, CompactFlash or any kind of portable flash mass storage system as a cache.

1)Go to the Control Panel menu option.
2)Click on Performance Information and Tools
3)Click on Advanced Tools in the left hand navigation bar.
4)Click on Configure my Windows ReadyBoost device
5) Select the options you want.